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How are your files and folders named and organized? Your "Bel-Air" has been identified/recognized as "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" likely due to ambiguous naming. Either rename series folders distinctively enough: Bel-Air (2022) [tvdbid=388151] The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990) [tvdbid=76738] OR Disable library option "Automatically merge series spread accross multiple folders" and re-Identify wrong show (Bel-Air).

For anyone who may be interested, here's an updated view of testing out the emoji color coding idea. I still haven't used the silver, purple and brown emojis, or any round ones, so there is plenty of scope for many more sort groups using this system. Also, for music, with MP3Tag Actions and Scripting Functions, it's possible to automatically create/change Genres and Tags for a large library, without needing to do it manually. My custom Create Decade Genre action group below was used to (relatively quickly) create the #Decade groups show above. The first eight lines add the decades to the Genre field and the last line removes duplicates, if the Genre already exists. Something else that would also be really useful for music tagging would be for Emby to implement importing ROONALBUMTAG tags. I realize that there is already an open FR for this here: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/106182-copying-tags-from-roon-to-emby/ Not only would this it be useful for Roon users, it would also be very useful for anyone else wanting to import embedded album only tags into Emby (as opposed to song/track tags with ROONTRACKTAG). If this had been available now, I may have used it instead of the Decade Genre approach above. The Decade Genres though are working reasonably well for what I want, but that's another topic..!

I think that is missing the actual database there ? playbackactivity ? UPDATE PlaybackActivity SET PlayDuration = (60 * 60 * 3), PauseDuration = 0 WHERE PlayDuration - PauseDuration > (60 * 60 * 3)

I'm a plex life time member, but I have been using Emby for over six years continuously, but there is a feature which I have always thought is missing in Emby which I would like and encourage the developer to consider including especially in this dispensation where families can social or commingle due to COVID 19. Today, I received a notification from Plex about it new feature titled Watch together you can read about it here https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/ The feature allows friends and families at distance to watch same movies together instantly, you simply invite all your buddy, once they signed to the system which can be seeing in the server then play and pause as needed, this I think is cool feature should be added to emby. Let's here your though if Emby developer should consider adding this feature to our beloved Emby Media https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Plex+Watch+Together&qpvt=plex+watch+together&FORM=EWRE

Are we talking about syncing playback between users (devices) on one server, or is it more about attempting to sync playback across multiple servers. I can think of a way to sync playback across multiple devices connected to one server. But, I'm not entirely sure about syncing playback across different servers, that might need a 3rd party app, and hosting... Maybe? Inside one server, where users are on different devices, the playback sync might be easy enough... Not perfectly sync'd, but probabaly within the second... Perhaps millisecond depending on the connection speed, and location. I thought there was an app being developed which did this sort of thing, but I'm not sure what came of it. Sounds like it could be set up as follows, for a one server setup: 1. Users login (create a session) 2. One user is set to the controlling user 3. The controlling session user is responsible for beginning playback. 4. Probabaly some kind of config page off the server dashboard to setup a group to control everything... I guess... to start. 5. When the controlling session starts playback, we grab the event, and send the same command to the other device sessions in the group. 6. Maybe some kind of playstate pause command to sync everything up close (close enough) to each other. Like I say, that could be the easy part. Maybe... Across multiple server, this would need an authentication to setup, and login, sending server IDs around to attempt controlling. Might be too much for me to write. But the one server setup could be done.

with one of the latest updates - not sure but not longer than maybe 5 weeks - I dont have dolby vision anymore docker on synology now on 4830, apps, latest 1. android tv, 2. android 3. LG checked with 3 devices, A: z9x pro, B: shield pro, C LG TV app and !2! DV TVs --> the stats for nerds are always telling me my TVs are NOT capable of DV - which is of course wrong and was different some weeks ago and pls dont tell em something about hdmi cables or lan network! or files, I've checked many files that were working in the past AND, without emby with the z9x pro app and jellyfin and even direct LG app, I still have DV. Whats needed to fix this? many thanks!!

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed but over the past few years prices on just about everything have gone up - a LOT. Also not sure if anyone has noticed but our price has remained constant for about six years now. We are working internally on how to continue to provide everything we want to in the current economic environment. We'd like to not have to raise our prices but all of our costs have gone up - again a LOT. So, it is possible that more things will require Premiere or that some things will have some other additional cost in the future. We don't have it all worked out yet but some sort of changes are going to have to come to adjust to the changing times. Thanks for your support.

Hi, I would like to transfer my custom TAGs from Roon to Emby Server. In Roon I am using ROONALBUMTAG to store all my custom album TAGs and I would like to import those into the Emby database. Is there any similar TAG that Emby will read automatically and copy the TAGs to its own database? I currently have over 30K albums in my library and most of them have custom TAGs, transferring them manually would be a hell of a job, so I am looking for a way to automate the operation, considering the fact that all required info is already present in my file TAGs... Thanks!

Which is better or stronger for Emby? Just wondering sorry.

Hello everyone, I recently switched to Synology for my emby server. Previously it ran on Windows for many years. No other changes to my set up. My problem is that since then the videos have been hanging or even freezing after just a few seconds. No chance to watch them. On the server and in the stats it is shown as direct play (HTTP). During (manual) package installation I’d no difficulties to access my video files and set up my library. There are located on an external usb drive attached to the nas (/volumeUSB1/usbshare1-2; of course with a different naming for the shared folder in dsm). Server: Emby Server (4.8.3.0-724080300) on Synology DS723+ (7.2.1-69057 Update 4) [18GB RAM] Player: Emby for Android TV (2.1.10g) on nVidia Shield TV Pro (2017) with Shield Experience 9.1.1 (33.2.0.157) The video files I want to play are with high video/audio bitrates (up to 94 mbps). Never wanted to transcode. No noticeable problems with the Shield TV before. Can’t really see any access/permission problems. Is it possible that there are hardware limits? Hopefully not, as I don’t assume this is a problem while direct playing a file. What I’ve done/tried so far: - set read/write permission in dsm for emby as internal system user as described - set optional network paths as described - attached network storage within Shield TV as described (never done this before!) - played around with smb and nfs permissions - checked permissions via ssh, as I suspected problems there with the usb device - several restarts of the server, the diskstation and the client Server logs from today attached. Sorry for the large file, but that’s with debug logging. I also sent a log file from the Android TV App. Last I wanted to watch Dune (2021) (stutter after 21s) at 15.13h (CET) / 10.13h (EST) with user emby. embyserver.txt embyserver-63846803427.txt hardware_detection-63846803489.txt

Probably any model with Intel chipset assuming it has Quick sync. What kind of CPU does my Synology NAS have? - Synology Knowledge Center But there are a lot of Synology users out there that should be able to give a better answer.

Just a reminder, pending on your subtitle source, some places limit free users to 10 subs a day.

Yes this will be an api by name look-up issue as it will return both shows. So with Emby it is the first choice per the returned api data as there really is no such thing as exact matching (unless you are providing providerids). Year in naming scheme should resolve this.

Thanks for all the details you provide... No rush at all, enjoy your vacation... Mine start Friday for a little more than a week

Sorry for the issues. I suspect those huge pause times with huge durations are when people turn off their TV but leave their Roku happily playing with the TV off. Try it yourself. Play something on your Roku. Now turn off your TV connected to that Roku. Do you see what happens on the dashboard activity? When you turn the TV back on is the Roku still playing the item or is it paused? If it isn't paused wait longer to turn the TV back on. Then check to see if when you turn it on after waiting longer is it paused and still running the Emby app? We have had changes in the Roku Emby Beta app to prevent this from happening and it will stop these things but they are not pushed to the store version yet. These changes will eventually make it to the Store release version. Once they do you should be able to trust your playback reports when the Roku is concerned.

Hardware detect shows your device was detected but failed to initialize, and since you are on CasaOS perhaps the docker container it is composing does not have permissions to access the underlying graphics adapter? From https://hub.docker.com/r/emby/embyserver

What I mean is Roku are notorious for orphan/stray sessions in Emby. Is it possible that even when users properly exit that Emby still doesn't close everything out? Perhaps the devs used a "special" workaround for Roku that doesn't completely remove the session though it does end the streams. Sure, this doesn't account for the others.

in EmbyCon in the addon menu ther is a node caled Custom Widgets Then TV Shows latest This should give you a list of TV shows just like the Web Client You can use this in a Skin as a video node and have it display on the home page.

I wouldn't think migrating from Windows to Linux (CentOS) would be possible, could be wrong. Best to start with a new install in my opinion.

Where ever this cost thing is going, I also hope that the lifetime option is not going away. I would not tolerate a monthly payment requirement. A low hanging fruit to raise revenue seems to be the TV guide data. I was concerned when this was introduced that the ongoing cost for these data is not sustainable with the lifetime option. The TV guide data are of limited use to me as I need international guides not available through emby, so I pay for these from another source anyway. Perhaps a monthly fee can be charged for these data. Next, it seems fine to further limit to entirely free use of emby. Perhaps some of these features can be offer in a lite version at reduced lifetime or monthly cost. If the situation is really dire, one could also move from v4 to v5. My understanding is that lifetime payment is good for v4 updates, so going to v5 would allow hitting existing lifetime users with a one-time upgrade charge at a discounted rate. Of course this is going to stir some anger with some lifetime-payment users, so apply with thought.

What I see is a lot of Roku clients in those lists...

yes possible I had client updates on android, android TV and LG in the last week's as well. but how are the chances that on all 3 apps dv is crashed now? how can I download the logs per client? or what should I do l? thanks

The usb releases are the same for all Tizen TVs from 2015 (J series) to present so it should work with your QN94A. Any functional differences between models/years is all done in the same app when it detects your version of Tizen. Link to GitHub will be in the instructions below. Glad to see your problem is fixed.

Ok, thanks for the info !

I had to use it for some obscure anime I have that doesn't have any translations at all, and my friends who do translations are far too busy with real life to help. It wasn't great for creating English subs from Japanese, but it was fantastic for creating English from English. I am hoping as time progresses the translation ability gets better.

i've got the unifi dome 6E, no complaints at all. i bought it to be able to use with a couple of gaming devices. i thought 6E was worth the premium over 6

OK the problem is that is a very old version, things have changed in Emby Server, but we're unable to update the app for your TV because Samsung is no longer accepting app updates for your model year. We are bugging and harassing them to try and get an update out but unfortunately I wouldn't hold your breath. Looks like you can workaround this by not using the symbol, or you could install a newer version via USB: https://emby.media/emby-for-samsung-smart-tv.html Please note that if you choose to go this route, Samsung expires USB builds after 30 days so you'll have to install an updated version every month.

Could you consider making an option to where someone make a specific user makes a playlist its automatically collaborative? Having to do that with every playlist is tedious. Or even the ability to select multiple playlists to have the option to make them collaborative.

For the record, I would have purchased the device limit extension if there were a lifetime option when I checked. I think the only options were monthly, at least at the time. I'd be happy to spend more money on Emby even though I'm slowly creeping away from it. I wouldn't be open to a monthly fee but I would be willing to buy something. I always think live TV is low hanging fruit for Emby sales. There are/were a lot of cord cutters who still want live sports and such.

Thank you for understanding the solution I proposed. Do you have any timeline of when something like this could be implemented? How much of a priority it is?

OK there is currently no way on the server to set the quality setting for client apps, but the users can do it directly in the apps.

I've added this to our issue tracker since it is in issue. Using the same terms you used here. Even though technically we would have to do this a different way than SRT. We could convert them to WebVTT. But this would require the use of an HLS manifest to allow side-car the data. Then we could copy the video/audio streams leaving them untouched. Rather than burning them in. I see where you are going with this. It is a good idea. But like all features it has to go through the tracker. Reference: Issue #1579: Allow ASS to be sent as SRT as an option in app along with burning them in

It is absolutely an issue with Emby Server, theres been some updates/upgrades to the UI framework that is causing these issues, but I'd like to get some input from @Lukebefore I check out and debug - because I've very recently fixed this issue and it has come back after Emby Server UI updates, when I can confirm what's happening with the dev team we can address anything we need to do ASAP

I sorted it out - turned out to be a Docker issue, the original install was a Snap package which did not work well. Reinstalling Ubuntu 22.04 w/o Docker during the base OS and installing Docker directly from the repository fixed it.

Thanks, this did the trick. Have something running on 8096, which is why I changed it.

I'm sure you are aware that this is simply a piece of software NOT hard goods so the same thing does not apply. On a side note, [redacted] over 90% of the so-called inflation from 2016 to now was and is actually corporate greed.

Yes. I have actually used Channels for the past 5 years. I was more curious about how others felt regarding the UI. I often jump back and forth between Emby and Channels. The only thing I currently miss in Channels is the Skip Intro feature in Emby. I love the GUI editor for commericial cuts in Channels.

@denzI am curious if you are just checking out the live TV and recording side of Channels or have you imported any other shows? Curious how you feel about the UI in general?

Yeah, the UI does leave a bit to be desired compared to Emby. It just depends on what is most important to the user. In my use case, it doesn't totally matter, although there is a lot of room for improvement. I do know there are some users that only use Channels for recording but use Emby or even Plex for watching. There are things I love about Emby but feel I can live without by comparison. But, everyone uses these pieces of software differently too. For me, if Emby were able to incorporate the comskip commercial detection with a gui that would allow me to alter the cuts the way they do in Channels, I would totally change back. That is what I personally find most important in my use case. At least you were willing to try it out and see what works for you.

I believe that is correct. It is something that has been brought up several times. I don’t need to add different users so honestly I never paid much attention to those threads about it on the forum.

Glad you're enjoying it. If you run into issues or have questions on how to do things, the community and Devs in their forum are pretty great at helping out.